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Warm Orange, Backlit & Autumn
Inspawration Editing Process & Rationale: Start here!
This is a great lesson to start delving into Em's editing process. A lot of people ask: "How would you edit xyz" or "Can we have an editing tutorial on abc"... but the fact of the matter is, 90% of her edits follow this same basic process or set of steps, adjusted to each individual photo. Starting here, you can get a feel for not only her "base process" but also the rationale for why she uses this workflow. Duration: 1hr 10mins
Golden Heather: Full Tutorial
Follow my normal process with a couple of extras, using LR & PS to make this bold and vibrant portrait of Luke in the purple heather, with warm golden backlight. Flip the image, clone some heather, and add some colour to the heather are all covered here. Length: 1hr 20 min
Backlit Journey
Full editing tutorial on an under-exposed photo of Journey, with some blown out highlights. Full process as a "stand alone" tutorial - prior knowledge of LR radials & PS masking/adjustment layers required.
Backlit Amie: Full Tutorial, PS Only!
This full tutorial uses PS only, but NO RADIAL FILTERS. If you use an editing program that doesn't have radials, this is for you. We edit an underexposed, backlit image of Amie, brightening her, darkening highlights, shaping the light, bringing more warmth to the colours, with a focus on non-destructive/reversible editing. Length: 1hr 15min
Edit Together: Flower Crown
Full tutorial, following the normal process, removing the slight green tint, warming up the image, creating an open vignette, dodge & burn/contouring. Length: 1hr 18min
Reflections: Full Tutorial
Full tutorial, working on a very underexposed image. Lots of white balance & colour adjustments, brightening up the dog while keeping it natural, but keeping the sky highlights dark. Length: 30 minutes
Deep Dark Woods
Dreaming in Green: Full Tutorial
This is a full start-to-finish editing tutorial in both LR and PS. We are editing puppy Hijinx, constructing a panorama to fix our composition, and shifting from these pale green tones into deeper, richer greens. Length: 1hr 50 mins.
Sadie in the Woods: Full Tutorial
Full editing tutorial of Sadie in the woods. This started as a live session but my computer died. Normal process including removing a person by using another photo of the location, shaping the light (a lot) shifting colours more toward cyan, enhancing the hazy effect in the background. Length: 45 minutes
Loki in the Deep Dark Woods
Edit Together: Forest Sheltie
Combine 3 RAW file images to create one panorama, giving Pitrie enough room below his feet and space above his head space for him to look into. We also use a fern overlay for some foreground blur/to add a bit more depth, then do quite a bit of work to create a "deep dark forest" mysterious mood. Length: 1hr 30min
Winter's Brown, Chill Snow
Edit Together: Snow
Edit a snowy photo of Loki with us. There are actually a LOT of files to download, so feel free to work on any. We use Lightroom and Photoshop, talk about colour-grading, turning things blue, shaping the light, working on difficult snow eyes and plenty more in this live lesson. [Duration: 1.5 hours]
Snowy Wonderland
Full tutorial of a slightly underexposed Journey with a relatively high ISO. Brightening the dog, shaping the light, shifting the colours to this cool-magenta tone, using gradients, adding a snow overly, dodge/burn, etc. Length: 1hr 15min
Journey in the Woods: Full Tutorial
An older tutorial before masking updates, following (perhaps) an older process. Adding light to the face, a spotlight effect, slightly altering colours and other normal steps. Nothing overly fancy! Length: 56 mins
A Winter’s Journey: Lightroom Only Tutorial
🥸 Full LR-only Tutorial, basic adjustments, selective edits, natural vignette
A Video Guide to Taking & Editing Snow Photos
Behind-the-camera things to consider with snow photos + editing tutorial. Editing tutorial for int - adv level.
Spring Blooms & Vibrant Greens
Golden Light Avi
Full tutorial of a slightly under-exposed image of black(ish) poodle Avi on an overcast day, warming up the background and faking golden hour through several techniques to make it more believable. Shifting colours of the flowers, brightening Avi up, and other various techniques. Length: 1hr
Springtime Šaj: Black Croatian Sheepdog: Lightroom Only Tutorial
[int] Lightroom only tutorial editing a panorama photo of Šaj, a black Croatian Sheepdog in a spring scene.
A Touch of Magic: Lightroom-Only Tutorial
Using Lightroom only, we're going to make this photo of Loki a little bit magical. With a lot of radial filters, we'll brighten & sharpen a black dog, shape the light, work on the colours, and create a sort of warm glow for him to look into.
Your Image, My Edit: Amie
Full tutorial, balancing exposure, lots of selective colour and colour harmony, shifting lime greens to a deeper cyan green. My true process as I play & experiment with colours & mood. Length: 57 minutes
Edit Together: Spring Theme
Full tutorial using curves layers and making a bit of a "pastel" look, changing colours, masking the dog, solid colour layers to fix parts, face contouring. Length: 1.5 hours.
Others: Landscapes, Indoors, Urban
Edit Together: Christmas Edition
In this Edit Together, we work through a Christmas photo of Journey, dealing with weird colour casts, a big angle problem, masking in a 2nd image to fix it, using content aware fill to fill in gaps, adding a bokeh overlay to fill a small space, a little bit of shaping the light, and dodge and burn. Duration: 2 hours
Edit Together: Styles Edition
We're going to take one raw file and treat it in two different ways: one darker, cooler and moodier, and the other brighter, warmer and happier. Normal process up to a point. Lots of curves layers to shape light and change the mood, lots of selective colour & colour changing options to go either warm & orange or cyan and moody. Length: 1hr 30mins
Mountain Sunshine
We are going to take a pretty flat, boring mountain scene featuring Loki, bringing out details in the clouds, brighten it up Loki, add some sun with an overlay and some rim-light around his fur to make the sun more believable, shifting colours, removing distractions (grass), but keeping it bright & light. Length: 1hr 8mins
Edit Together: Keeping it Simple
(Beg/int) Download the raw file of this simple photo and take it nice and slow as we edit together in Lightroom. Nothing too fancy, explaining the process & some interesting LR features.
Image SOS: Episode 1
Image SOS on 3 images: Patchy highlights in background & on the dog, extreme shade on face, fixing composition, fixing blown out highlights
Approximate Levels
Beginners
Edit Together: Keeping it Simple
(Beg/int) Download the raw file of this simple photo and take it nice and slow as we edit together in Lightroom. Nothing too fancy, explaining the process & some interesting LR features.
A Touch of Magic: Lightroom-Only Tutorial
Using Lightroom only, we're going to make this photo of Loki a little bit magical. With a lot of radial filters, we'll brighten & sharpen a black dog, shape the light, work on the colours, and create a sort of warm glow for him to look into.
Journey in the Woods: Full Tutorial
An older tutorial before masking updates, following (perhaps) an older process. Adding light to the face, a spotlight effect, slightly altering colours and other normal steps. Nothing overly fancy! Length: 56 mins
A Winter’s Journey: Lightroom Only Tutorial
🥸 Full LR-only Tutorial, basic adjustments, selective edits, natural vignette
A Video Guide to Taking & Editing Snow Photos
Behind-the-camera things to consider with snow photos + editing tutorial. Editing tutorial for int - adv level.
Intermediate
Mountain Sunshine
We are going to take a pretty flat, boring mountain scene featuring Loki, bringing out details in the clouds, brighten it up Loki, add some sun with an overlay and some rim-light around his fur to make the sun more believable, shifting colours, removing distractions (grass), but keeping it bright & light. Length: 1hr 8mins
Snowy Wonderland
Full tutorial of a slightly underexposed Journey with a relatively high ISO. Brightening the dog, shaping the light, shifting the colours to this cool-magenta tone, using gradients, adding a snow overly, dodge/burn, etc. Length: 1hr 15min
Sadie in the Woods: Full Tutorial
Full editing tutorial of Sadie in the woods. This started as a live session but my computer died. Normal process including removing a person by using another photo of the location, shaping the light (a lot) shifting colours more toward cyan, enhancing the hazy effect in the background. Length: 45 minutes
Backlit Journey
Full editing tutorial on an under-exposed photo of Journey, with some blown out highlights. Full process as a "stand alone" tutorial - prior knowledge of LR radials & PS masking/adjustment layers required.
Loki in the Deep Dark Woods
Springtime Šaj: Black Croatian Sheepdog: Lightroom Only Tutorial
[int] Lightroom only tutorial editing a panorama photo of Šaj, a black Croatian Sheepdog in a spring scene.
Edit Together: Forest Sheltie
Combine 3 RAW file images to create one panorama, giving Pitrie enough room below his feet and space above his head space for him to look into. We also use a fern overlay for some foreground blur/to add a bit more depth, then do quite a bit of work to create a "deep dark forest" mysterious mood. Length: 1hr 30min
A Touch of Magic: Lightroom-Only Tutorial
Using Lightroom only, we're going to make this photo of Loki a little bit magical. With a lot of radial filters, we'll brighten & sharpen a black dog, shape the light, work on the colours, and create a sort of warm glow for him to look into.
Backlit Amie: Full Tutorial, PS Only!
This full tutorial uses PS only, but NO RADIAL FILTERS. If you use an editing program that doesn't have radials, this is for you. We edit an underexposed, backlit image of Amie, brightening her, darkening highlights, shaping the light, bringing more warmth to the colours, with a focus on non-destructive/reversible editing. Length: 1hr 15min
Edit Together: Flower Crown
Full tutorial, following the normal process, removing the slight green tint, warming up the image, creating an open vignette, dodge & burn/contouring. Length: 1hr 18min
Reflections: Full Tutorial
Full tutorial, working on a very underexposed image. Lots of white balance & colour adjustments, brightening up the dog while keeping it natural, but keeping the sky highlights dark. Length: 30 minutes
Your Image, My Edit: Amie
Full tutorial, balancing exposure, lots of selective colour and colour harmony, shifting lime greens to a deeper cyan green. My true process as I play & experiment with colours & mood. Length: 57 minutes
Edit Together: Spring Theme
Full tutorial using curves layers and making a bit of a "pastel" look, changing colours, masking the dog, solid colour layers to fix parts, face contouring. Length: 1.5 hours.
A Video Guide to Taking & Editing Snow Photos
Behind-the-camera things to consider with snow photos + editing tutorial. Editing tutorial for int - adv level.
Advanced
Edit Together: Styles Edition
We're going to take one raw file and treat it in two different ways: one darker, cooler and moodier, and the other brighter, warmer and happier. Normal process up to a point. Lots of curves layers to shape light and change the mood, lots of selective colour & colour changing options to go either warm & orange or cyan and moody. Length: 1hr 30mins
Mountain Sunshine
We are going to take a pretty flat, boring mountain scene featuring Loki, bringing out details in the clouds, brighten it up Loki, add some sun with an overlay and some rim-light around his fur to make the sun more believable, shifting colours, removing distractions (grass), but keeping it bright & light. Length: 1hr 8mins
Snowy Wonderland
Full tutorial of a slightly underexposed Journey with a relatively high ISO. Brightening the dog, shaping the light, shifting the colours to this cool-magenta tone, using gradients, adding a snow overly, dodge/burn, etc. Length: 1hr 15min
Sadie in the Woods: Full Tutorial
Full editing tutorial of Sadie in the woods. This started as a live session but my computer died. Normal process including removing a person by using another photo of the location, shaping the light (a lot) shifting colours more toward cyan, enhancing the hazy effect in the background. Length: 45 minutes
Backlit Journey
Full editing tutorial on an under-exposed photo of Journey, with some blown out highlights. Full process as a "stand alone" tutorial - prior knowledge of LR radials & PS masking/adjustment layers required.
Loki in the Deep Dark Woods
Golden Light Avi
Full tutorial of a slightly under-exposed image of black(ish) poodle Avi on an overcast day, warming up the background and faking golden hour through several techniques to make it more believable. Shifting colours of the flowers, brightening Avi up, and other various techniques. Length: 1hr
Edit Together: Forest Sheltie
Combine 3 RAW file images to create one panorama, giving Pitrie enough room below his feet and space above his head space for him to look into. We also use a fern overlay for some foreground blur/to add a bit more depth, then do quite a bit of work to create a "deep dark forest" mysterious mood. Length: 1hr 30min
Backlit Amie: Full Tutorial, PS Only!
This full tutorial uses PS only, but NO RADIAL FILTERS. If you use an editing program that doesn't have radials, this is for you. We edit an underexposed, backlit image of Amie, brightening her, darkening highlights, shaping the light, bringing more warmth to the colours, with a focus on non-destructive/reversible editing. Length: 1hr 15min
Reflections: Full Tutorial
Full tutorial, working on a very underexposed image. Lots of white balance & colour adjustments, brightening up the dog while keeping it natural, but keeping the sky highlights dark. Length: 30 minutes
Image SOS: Episode 1
Image SOS on 3 images: Patchy highlights in background & on the dog, extreme shade on face, fixing composition, fixing blown out highlights
